A Pumped Up July 4th

Houston Rodeo is two stepping into the summer: New festival to include musicacts

Get ready for The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo's summer break extravaganza!
Reliant Center, site of the first Houston's Hot Summer Break, set July 4-8, 2012

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is extending its reach — into summer.

A new summertime festival, called Houston's Hot Summer Break, is launching this year from July 4 through 8 with most of the trappings we've come to love from the Houston Rodeo — food, beer, wine, booze, shopping and, of course, live music.

The all-indoor event (it's Houston in July, after all) will be held inside Reliant Center and include cocktail competitions and a home brewing competition as well as cooking demos and wine seminars.

Proceeds from the five-day event, which will include musical performances by artists in a variety of genres, from DJs to blues and jazz, will benefit the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and its scholarship programs for Texas students.

Tell us: Would you be open to a Rodeo festival in July?

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R.I.P., Mayor Turner

How to pay respects as late Houston mayor Sylvester Turner lies in state

Photo courtesy of Mayor's Office, City of Houston

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The City of Houston is remembering the late Sylvester Turner - the former mayor of Houston who won election last November to fill late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee's seat in District 18.

He died Wednesday, March 5 at 70 years old.

Turner was in attendance at President Donald Trump's Joint Address to Congress last week. According to his family, he was taken to the hospital Tuesday night and later released while in Washington, D.C. At 5:45 am Wednesday, he died at home from enduring health complications, the family said.

Turner will lie in state at the Houston City Hall rotunda on Tuesday, March 11. The memorial began at 9 am with brief remarks from Mayor John Whitmire. The rotunda will be open to visitors until 7 pm Tuesday.

Members of the public are invited to sign the book of condolence at the entrance to City Hall. Visitors are asked not to stop in the rotunda to talk, take photographs, or video so that the line continues to move without delay.

After he's honored in Houston, Turner will "lie in honor" at the State Capitol in Austin on Thursday and Friday.

Then, he'll return to his hometown for the last time for his funeral on Saturday at 1 pm at The Church Without Walls on Houston's northwest side, where Turner attended church for 35 years.

Turner's family is asking guests attending the service to wear blue.

A private burial will follow.

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